illicit
adjective
not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
illicitness
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a word derived from
illicit.
Example Sentences
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But the city ignored Odum’s pleas to temporarily open the space for visitors, creating an aura of illicitness and immediacy around what he’d called “Project Be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
But evoking illicitness is important to their identity—it gives them the frisson of speaking the forbidden, a rhetorical strategy that Daum also deploys.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
The risks and illicitness of it all is partly what attracts the otherwise buttoned-down Jean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
Our exchange reeked of geopolitical illicitness; we were mere kilometres from the Bridge of Spies, where, during the Cold War, prisoners were traded.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2016
The Quakers ground the illicitness of war on several passages, which are to be found in the New Testament.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
